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1. Grants

   Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 9,182 at the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Cibola County. Grants began as a railroad camp in the 1880s, when three Canadian brothers – Angus A. Grant, John R. Grant, and Lewis A. Grant – were awarded a contract to build a section of the new Atlantic and Pacific Railroad through the region. The Grant brothers' camp was first called Grants Camp, then Grants Station, and finally Grants. The new city enveloped the existing colonial New Mexican settlement of Los Alamitos and grew along the tracks of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. The town prospered as a result of railroad logging in the nearby Zuni Mountains, and it served as a section point for the Atlantic and Pacific, which became part of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad empire. The Zuni Mountain Railroad short line had a roundhouse in town and housed workers in a small community named Breecetown. Timber from the Zuni Mountains was shipped to Albuquerque where a large sawmill converted the timber to wood products that were sold around the west. After the decline of logging in the 1930s, Grants gained fame as the "carrot capital" of the United States. Agriculture was aided by the creation of Bluewater Reservoir, and the region's volcanic soils provided ideal conditions for farming. Grants also benefited from its location on U.S. Route 66, which brought tourists and travelers and the businesses that catered to them.

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1. grantsverb

   Verb form of the word grant.

   The government grants system is efficient, structured and easy to access.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 23, 2020  

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   Rank popularity for the word 'grants' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4715

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   Rank popularity for the word 'grants' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4141

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grants in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

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   The numerical value of grants in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of grants in a Sentence

1. Ray Duncan:

   We’ve learned there’s all kinds of stuff you can apply for if you do it this way -- government grants, tax credits, energy rebates, our CFO is going nuts on this stuff. I told her ‘Get everything you can.’.

2. Alvin Toffler:

   The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

3. Joshua Matz:

   The Constitution grants authority over the census to Congress, rather than the president, the fact that Congress has delegated some role to the Department of Commerce does not mean that the president can independently do anything he wants to the census questionnaire.

4. Lauren Saunders:

   When you give Mint your bank password, you don't give them permission to make transfers, you don't need to be a lawyer to understand that you are not a consumer who 'grants authority to make transfers.'.

5. Ron Johnson:

   If we have that discussion, if we're going to offer grants to states to pass red flag laws, we ought to attach to those grants very strict guidelines in terms of due process.

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